domenica 31 marzo 2013

Nightingales in December is a trip into the memory.There are no Nightingales in December... What is left, is only the history of our beginning, and our end.Written, directed and animated by Theodore UshevMusic: Spencer KrugSound design: Olivier CalvertProducer: Nicolas Girard Deltruc, FNCDistributed by Bonobostudio, Croatia

Zhang trained at the Beijing Central Academy of Art & Design. After studying painting in China, he went to Italy, where he discovered graffiti art. He was the only graffiti artist in Beijing throughout the early 1990s, and is the first artist since Keith Haring and Jackson Pollock to be given the cover of Time magazine.[citation needed]

From 1995 to 1998 he spray-painted over 2000 giant profiles of his own bald head on buildings throughout Beijing, placing the images alongside 'chai' characters painted by the city authorities to indicate that a building is scheduled for demolition. The appearance of these images became the subject of media debate in Beijing in 1998.

sabato 30 marzo 2013

Uncomfortable. Bizarre. Just a few words to describe Finland-based animator Elli Vuorinen's animated short Kielitiettyni, or 'The Tongueling.' A man wanders through a desolate, depressing space of land, encounter a variety of strange yet eerily similar creatures and folks along the way, tied together by a common, tongue-y thread. His search is simple: To find what they all have. It's a disturbing and definitely delving deep into the abstract, but I dig it. The crude, grungy look of the animation definitely fits the animator's strange sense of humor.

Perihelion is a sort of animated dark poem. It is a short film that toes the line between narrative and non-narrative, essentially having no real beginning, middle or end.The idea being that you could start watching it at any point and it would (hopefully) have the same impact. Visually, it's heavily inspired by the work of a number of German painters from the early 20th century. Notably: Otto Dix, Richard Oelze, Ingrid Griebel-Zietlow, Rudolf Schlichter and Max Ernst, as well as Francisco Goya.